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The Dog That Didn't Bark

Updated Aug. 29, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

In fact there has not been a successful attack by the Palestinians on Israelis since Aug. 4, the day a series of deadly assaults took 14 Israeli lives and called forth headlines announcing the failure of Israel's containment policy.

Of course, "Nothing's Happening" doesn't make great banner-headline material. But sometimes, as in the oft-referenced Sherlock Holmes mystery about the dog and his master, silence is its own...